Yeah I'm not going to take your word for that, and you know exactly why not.
Watch the video. If you do not take my word for it , watch the video, or go to Dearborn and see for yourself.
If you are from MI, you know as well as I Dearborn is not even close to the place it used to be.
The first wave of Arab migrants arrived in Detroit in the late 1880s. Mainly Christians, they left their homes in the Mount Lebanon region following a collapse in traditional silk-weaving industry, a demographic boom in Beirut and the prospect of military conscription.
Palestinian Muslims arrived in the second decade of the 20th century, attracted by the prospect of work on the assembly lines that produced Ford’s revolutionary Model ‘T’, and they were followed by Catholic Chaldeans from Iraq and Yemenis, who began to arrive in significant numbers in the 1920s.
More recently, Dearborn's established communities have been swollen by refugees fleeing conflict in the Middle East.
Inside the museum, the temporary exhibitions accompany four permanent displays dedicated to the contribution the Arab world has made to global culture, the experience of Arab immigrants arriving in America, the lives of Arabs in America and people of Arab heritage who have made a significant contribution to the US.
How Dearborn, Michigan became the heart of Arab America